(The following quotes are taken
fromThe Quotable Einstein, Princeton
University Press unless otherwise noted)

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of
the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight
details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That
deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning
power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea
of God."

(The following is from Einstein and
Religion by Max Jammer, Princeton University Press)"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I
can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child
entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child
knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It
does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child
dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but
doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even
the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe
marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand
these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the
constellations."

The following is from The Society for General
Systems Research, Yearbook of the Society for General Systems
Research (Palo Alto, CA: The Society for General Systems Research,
1956), 24
"The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that
we have done so
far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at
which we created
them . . . . We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if
humankind is to
survive."

(The following is from The Quotable
Einstein)"Thus I came...to a deep religiosity,
which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the
reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that
much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against
every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which
has never left me."

"I don't try to imagine a God; it suffices to stand in awe of the
structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to
appreciate it."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is
blind."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own - a God, in short,
who is but a reflection of human frailty. It is enough for me to
contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through
all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe
which we can dimly perceive and to try humbly to comprehend even an
infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in Nature."

"The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. His
religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony
of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that ,
compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human
beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."

". . . In spite of all this, I don't let a single opportunity pass
unheeded, nor have I lost my sense of humor. When God created the
ass he gave him a thick skin." Einstein: The Life and Times by Ronald W.
Clark, Avon Books.

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded
our humanity."

"Where dull-witted clansmen of our tribe were praying aloud, their
faces turned to the wall, their bodies swaying to and fro. A pathetic
sight of men with a past but without a future." (Regarding his visit to
the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, February 3, 1923)

"Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest
pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our
2,000 years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us."

"I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to
declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or
the preparation of war."

"It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a
supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on
a larger scale."

The following is from Elsa Einstein, Albert Einstein's wife, regarding
Einstein's development of the theory of general relativity. It's taken
from the outstanding book Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer.
It's originally taken from Charles Chaplin's autobiography.

The Doctor came down in his dressing gown as usual for breakfast
but he hardly touched a thing. I thought something was wrong, so I
asked what was troubling him. "Darling," he said, "I have a
wonderful idea." And after drinking his coffee, he went to the piano
and started playing. Now and again he would stop, making a few notes
then repeat: "I've got a wonderful idea, a marvelous idea!" I
said: "Then for goodness' sake tell me what it is, don't keep me in
suspense." He said: "It's difficult, I still have to work it out."

She told me he continued playing the piano and making notes for
about half an hour, then went upstairs to his study, telling her
that he did not wish to be disturbed, and remained there for two
weeks. "Each day I sent him up his meals," she said, "and in the
evening he would walk a little for exercise, then return to his work
again. Eventually," she said, "he came down from his study looking
very pale. "That's it," he told me, wearily putting two sheets of
paper on the table. And that was his theory of relativity."

A recent survey on religion shows there are 34
million Americans who are classified as "Nones", that is they do
not embrace any of the "revealed" religions and the vast
majority of them are not Atheists. In actuality, the vast
majority of the "Nones" are actually Deists!

The survey shows a giant step forward for Deism in the fact that it
actually uses the word "Deist" and for the very significant raw
numbers it shows as representing the number of people who are
Deists. In reality, the number of Deists is actually
higher than the survey shows because the survey uses an outdated
definition of Deist. For a more accurate definition please see
our Deism
Defined page.

Astronomers report a recent
study strongly indicates the Universe is infinite.
One of the reasons the freethinker Giordano Bruno was tortured and
murdered by being burned alive by the Catholic Church during the
Inquisition was that he said the Universe is eternal and infinite
which violates the superstitions in the Bible found in Genesis. This
new study vindicates Bruno.

Obama is making the mixing of church and state
worse than ever before.
Obama supporters forget that when all is said and done, Obama is
just another politician. This
article shows he's proving that he is nothing but a politician
by doing more than any other president to mix religion and
government, especially through giving tax-dollars to religious
organizations.